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there could be thunderstorms later tonight as we look live at lehigh valley this morning from high atop hotel bethlehem, katie's here with more on our unsettled pattern. good morning, everyone i'm , jan contact bar owe. >> katie and meisha will be along in a moment but first here's what you need to know to start your day in the morning minute. high profile murder case. >> this trial is expected to take about 15 days, dj creato is facing murder and child endangerment charges in the death of his three-year old son. bill o'reilly who hosted this program for 20 years is leaving the "fox news" channel >> cable news star was fired from "fox news". >> fired on the same day that he is photographed shaking hand with the pope. >> a potentially dangerous discovery in tacony, animal control confiscates an animal
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following a fire. and elaborate scam busted. hundreds of fake license plates, are rented out. >> the people who wanted them to evade law enforcement paying e-z pass and paying tolls and parking tickets. >> this is stephen colbert's midnight confessions whenever i go to a bathroom and see one of those employees must wash hand signs i always think, well, good thing i don't work here. i think incoming quality is one of the america's greatest problems until they bring me that hot toll in first class. >> hot towels should be given out in coach too they are refreshing. >> absolutely. >> feel good on a germy plane. >> snacks would help too. a lot less complaints. >> yes, indeed. >> only complaints around here might be a little bit of rain, right, katie. >> a little bit of. i like how you, qualified it like that here too, jim because we are not talking
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about a lot of wet weather out here. it is sort of coming with good timing too. i don't have an umbrella on the sky deck but we have wet weather to track currently when we go out to storm scan three. it is very light. it is far to the north of the city. that is kind of the worst of our worries here throughout the course of the day. the sun has not listen but daylight hours will feature mix of cloud and sunshine as well. we will also expect to warm up here with time too. currently temperatures off to a mild start. we had a deck of cloud cover to limit kind of cooling that could take place if we had clear skies and does help that there is a warm front. current temperatures in the mid to upper 50's depending on locations and head out toward mount pocono we are talking about 48 degrees. today, milder day up to 73, in philadelphia, with the scattered showers primarily in the morning, the shore, similar scenario and same deal goes for the poconos. now as we move forward, we're expecting unsettled pattern to continue but the timing is always, everything.
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and you are not expect to go see wash outs necessarily in the next couple of days but there are, you know, not just cold front passage but system moving through for our area in the days ahead. we will talk about that, when it gets in here when is most prone time to see the rain and it its all coming up later, guys, meisha, back over to you it has been a good morning happy gateway to a week even. looking outside we have an accident near schuylkill westbound near conshohocken curve pulled off to that far right shoulder. you might get a gaper delay. you can already see we're starting to heat up here around conshohocken curve pushing in the westbound direction. so head up, if not for just to point out the accident i did want to show you that it is getting busy, we're not even in the 6:00 o'clock mark and it is getting busy. give yourself a couple extra minutes leaving in the next 15 or 20 minutes. quick peak at the boulevard near the schuylkill, you can see both directions, are kind of holding steady basically anywhere we lot at boulevard right now looking like that.
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then we have this truck fire burlington, new jersey, expect closure four to five hours here. richard run is closed right new between dultys lane and john gall the way, and route 130 is your best bet around. that we have an accident butler pike at stenton avenue. not to mention construction croup that is we still have out there 495 northbound in delaware head up in wilmington between terminal avenue and 12th street two left lanes are block there jan and jim, back to you. "fox news" fires long time hoe bill o'reilly after numerous claims he sexually assaulted woman back to 2004. >> network is moving on and has rename his former top rated show, hen adan qualifications has more on what he had to say about the allegations and the split. >> reporter: end of an era at "fox news" channel. >> reporter: "fox news" channel praised bill o'reilly on wednesday, hours after the cable network's decision to fire him. >> bill has been the un disputed king of cable news, he is an incredibly talented
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broadcaster who raised bar for interviewers every where. >> guess where bill's going? i will have a full report when i return. >> reporter: his ouster came as embattled host vacationed in italy where he met with the pope, yesterday, at the vatican. >> fire bill o'reilly. >> reporter: more than 50 major sponsor had pulled out of his show in recent weeks, amid new investigation in sexual and racial harassment claims against the 67 year-old and reports "fox news", and o'reilly paid five women a total of 13 million-dollar, in the past, to keep quiet about his alleged sexual harassment. while o'reilly maintains his innocence the parent company of "fox news" channel released this statement yesterday, saying that after a thorough and careful review of the allegations, the company and bill o'reilly have agreed that he will not be returning to the channel. wendy walsh, a former fox commentator said she lost a chance for a job at the fox network after she rejected o'reilly's advances.
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>> fox is doing what i think fox should do make a big, public statement, that women's rights are more important then the bottom line. >> reporter: in a statement o'reilly said he was proud of his time at fox and thanked his viewers for his success. henna daniels for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". a data breach could be bigger than first expect. >> money watch's jill wagner joins us from the new york stock exchange this morning with that and news about a new type of ikea store, good morning, jill. >> reporter: good morning, jim and jan. futures are now pointing to a bit of a higher open. dow jones yesterday fell down 118 points, the second consecutive triple digit loss, nasdaq gained 13, a data breach with the inter continental hotel group is bigger than first reported. the chain now says hackers broke in the computer system, stole credit card numbers, expiration days and even security code between
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september 29th and december 29th, 2016 over 1200 locations. they own holiday inn, crowned plaza and among others. not every location was affect. about 12 in philadelphia were though. facebook wants to read your mind. social media giant is working on a project that lets you type, with your brain, and pretty crazy. facebook says technology is many years away but researchers at stanford have created a system that lets a paralyzed patient type eight word a minute using only her thoughts. and ikea's beloved meat balls could get their very own store. ikea says it makes a billion dollars a year in food sales and realized some people go to the furniture store just for the food, and so these new food stores would sell items like mashed potatoes and jam. >> i like the soft serve ice cream. >> they do. >> i never had that. >> i was within of those people. we have one in south philadelphia i have gone to a few times where i'm like okay, i'll run in there for that. >> it is like 99 cents or something for that soft serve
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you don't to have put it together like their furniture. >> a win/win. >> thanks, jill we will check with you tomorrow. well, with the snip of the ribbon museum of the american revolution is officially opened. >> a large crowd gathered yesterday for the grand opening ceremony. now that museum is located on the corner of third and chestnut streets in olde city. yesterday was also the 200 forty-second anniversary of the shot heard around the world which started revolutionary war in 1775 and all-star cast of speakers helped usher in the historic day. >> i cannot tell you what a great day it is to celebrate the birth of our country. every day is a great day to celebrate american history. >> it is not flags that we're waving, it is what lives within us. >> for museum hours and other forehead over to cbs philly .com. we have posted a link there. secret service is ramping up security measures at the
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white house. public will no longer have access along south fence line, restrict area includes sidewalks, roadways and park land area which have been off limits at night since 2015 secret service says new restrictions will not hinder visitors view of the white house and its ground this comes just a month after a man hopped fence and ran toward the building. intense manhunt underway for a trader inside cia. officials believe a cia worker or contractor stole thousands of classified documents that were later published by wikileaks last month. the top secret documents exposed how cia is able to hack into smart phones, smart tv's and computers they were stored in highly secured section of the intelligence agency but authorities say hundreds of people have have access to that material. new information in the cleveland facebook murder case now. police say they have recovered a gun from steve stevens car after tuesday's crash in erie, pennsylvania. authorities say that they will send the gun now to cleveland to see fit was the same weapon
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used to kill robert godwin, senior, the coroner also confirmed that steve stevens shot himself. >> we determined and ruled the death a suicide as a result of a single contact gunshot wound to the head. >> stevens was a subject of the two day manhunt after police say he posted a video of himself shooting a man on facebook. state police hope anyone who spotted his car will come forward. they are trying to piece together a time line of his activities. mcdonald's staff played a big role in stevens capture and their good deed will not go unnoticed. someone sent the staff this flower arrangement with the note thanking them for their courage. two disturbing incidents are investigated at penn state university, incidents involved someone taking pictures or videos of students, showering in a dorm. police say that the alleged incidents happened sunday night and early monday morning inside thompson hall. police are not releasing any information about the victims and they are asking students,
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who may have been or about students who may have been responsible. still ahead there is talk about a new role for will smith, got to tell you, popular robin williams character he may bring back, straight ahead. find out about an act of kindness that brought a waitress to tears. and thieves targeting celebrities, hear from their latest victim,
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welcome back and i have to tell you another celebrity has been targeted by burglars in l.a. and this time actor, model fabio is ripped off. since january at lee seven other celebrities had hundreds of thousands of dollars, worth of jewelry taken, fabio says the burglars got away with an entire safe worth $200,000 from his home, that the point thieves latest victim says it is more like an epidemic. >> every single celebrity out here i know, a lot of celebrities, nicki minaj, derek fisher, please come out, support the cops, this is a people issue. we need your support. >> fabio says incidents left him feeling violated. he is hoping celebrities come together to right this wrong with the help of law enforcement. got to tell but a big holy we premiere, stars came out for world premiere of the guardians of the galaxy two, actor chris pratt who plays
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peter in the movie, says sequel is bigger and better and in his word juiced up 1,000 times. it will hit theaters nationwide may fifth. west philadelphia's own will smith is in talks to voice the genie in the live action reboot of the a laden, love that movie. with the new beauty and beast a billion dollar success, expect plenty of live action takes on disney animated classics, will be inn williams famously voiced the genie in the 1992 animated philadelphia laden. interesting. >> yes, yes, definitely. >> beauty and beast was great. >> i haven't had a chance to but i really want to see it though. >> it was good. >> matinee. >> oh, yeah, it is also less crowded. >> perfect time for to us go. >> exactly. >> it is like our happy hour. >> yes. >> so weather-wise we are looking at mild weather here for next couple days but still unsettled. i like that word because it
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tells you that there is something out there but doesn't necessarily guarantee you will see anything. >> okay. >> one of the word you hear an awful lot, during the summer months, because you tend to have pop up showers and storms , right. well to day is more associated with a frontal passage. we see any wet weather out there at all. as we look live here overlooking bethlehem from high atop hotel bethlehem facing south there and what you will find out there is that at this point more than anything just a lot of cloud but throughout the day and this morning, there will be a couple of showers around too. meanwhile, as we eventually get to to storm scan there are a few showers, but i will check with our eyewitness weather watchers. they are reporting warmth right now, low to mid 50's, around much of the region. we will start in the center where lynn is reporting 54 degrees. she's in cherry hill. she had a comment and picture. regardless of the fact that it is, technically mild for standard it does feel chilly. she's got a lot of pollen out
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there she sent a picture of the pollen. look closely do you see that line. she drew eye line through the pollen. i'm guess cooper river a window, windshield, car hood but still a problem. if you are suffering allergy be ready with the proper medication here even though we have rain. it will not wash away the pollen. one more to show you here, one more, 56 from jason. lots of cloud where he is located in the middletown area i got time to throw one more in here, why not. 50 degrees from john jenkins who has a lot of cloud over his house as well. we have not seen much wet weather from the watchers this morning which is a good thing. it makes it easier to travel but there are still regardless of some showers to track and they are primarily far north of the city. with that said we are going to see another system drag a cold front through come tomorrow. we can see heavier rain working its way in lower michigan especially but with time this will be moving through our area not producing much more than a scattered shower or thunderstorm throughout the day thomas front crosses through.
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we will warm up before that happens. why am i showing you the tropical satellite? it is awfully early to be seeing tropical activity, isn't it? mother narcan do whatever she wants. we have subtropical depression , number one, out in the atlantic right now it will make a north/northwest track. i know weather watchers like to geek out just like we do but it does not look like it will be any threat to land. it will get absorbed by another low moving out to sea. moving forward we will see temperatures, kind of all over the place. tomorrow, again very warm day but watch for a shower or thunderstorm over the course of the weekend. temperatures dropping off. sunday looks like it will be dreary outside with some showers around, meisha. >> thank you very much. very good morning. happy gateway to you. we are looking at an accident schuylkill westbound at conshohocken curve pulled off to the that shoulder and very dark out there. i want to call your attention to how much traffic or congestion levels we are around that moving in the westbound and eastbound
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direction. just thinking about heading out the door give yourself a company extra minutes. accident pulled off but we will get brakes lights and gaper delay and that will add to the slow downs there. then 95 south, we are heating up, and make your way in center city. something to think about there an accident in blue bell butler pike at stenton avenue. we have a truck fire that we are keeping an eye on. this closure in burlington, new jersey richard run is closed and will be closed for next four to five hours between dultys lane and john g all the way. route 130 is your best bet. construction in wilmington 495 north bound between terminal avenue and 12th street two left lanes are blocked there. jim, back over to you. new surveillance video shows a moment a woman is shot dead by a florida police officer during police academy training. it happened in florida's southwest coast, in august of 2016. mary knollton volunteered to participate in the shoot/don't
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shoot scenario. man in the gray sweat shirt was pretending to be a suspect when he accidentally fired off his gun. she fell to the ground. she later died. he has been fired from his department and faces felony first degree manslaughter charge. fans of the musician prince are heading to minnesota from all over to honor his life this week. tomorrow is anniversary of prince death, he passed away last year at his home in minneapolis. now fans visiting sites big in his career. many of them gathered at prince's favorite record store in his home city. >> just to be around the feeling, energy of prince, you know. >> i'm here to say thank you to the man because you know, his music, you know, it is such a powerful thing. >> international fans. fans also stopped by the capri theater in north minneapolis where prince played his first solo show in 1979. well, up next, meet
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teenager graduating high school and college, just days apart. >> plus what is black and white and running loose? why it is, a zebra. we will tell you where this strange scene unfolded, up next.
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welcome back. the answer to the question why does a zebra cross the road. >> well, because he could, right. the zebra, and some other 4- footed friend escaped their enclosures on sunday in southern california. neighbors snapped pictures as zebra calmy toured the area he came up to one home owner. >> the zebra got close to the car and said hi, how are you that kind of thing. it was priceless, precious experience. >> gorgeous animal. >> right. >> there are no restriction as begins having zebras in this community and animal control officers say neighbors rounded up the loose animal without their help. >> that is my spirit animal because i could read between the lines. i love zebras. sea world announced a historic birth, the killer whale gave birth to a calf yesterday, it will be last baby whale to be born in captivity at a sea world park. sea world announced it will end orca breed nothing 2016.
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she was already pregnant. they plan to let visitors observe her at her new calf in the near future. very interesting. graduateding from college is one of the biggest moments in a person's life and see is graduating from high school. >> one wisconsin student will do both in the coming weeks. austin clum is receiving his degree in it software and development from western technical college, but when he is not working on than that degree he is working toward his high school difficult prom a he works 12 hours a day completing his high school and college work. >> i just kind of go through the semester and don't say anything until, how old are you? i'm 18, and in high school. they are all surprised. >> no big deal. he has a full-time job lined up in the summer too but not done with school he is heading to the university of wisconsin lacrosse next year where he will enter the computer science program. >> he has a bright future.
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>> makes me feel like a slack er. waitress in connecticut is on the receiving end of customer kindness. >> she was walking a customer to the table when she noticed he had a hard time hearing him she said one of her hearing aid were broken. this happened near new haven. after the meal he gave her a 500-dollar tip to get it fixed >> i didn't say i needed money or anything. he just came in the back and was like i'm not taking in for an answer and i want you to have this. i tried to give him back the money, but he was just no, you deserve this. >> that is great. >> another customer says that the type of kindness in that area is typical, their restaurant owner was so impressed he is using t-shirt sales to raise money for american society for deaf children. see, passing it on, moving it down the road there. coming up next on cbs-3 "eyewitness news" a warning about scammers using social media sites about facebook to target their victims. i will show what you to look out for.
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david creato murder trial gets underway today accused of killing his own son because his girl friend didn't like children. we're live with the look at what we can expect in court today. a vicious attack in broad daylight, new police are looking for the three men who kicked, punched another man until he lost consciousness. grab your umbrella today, difficult, keep it handy for rest of the week, katie tracking several chances of showers and thunderstorms over the next couple of days. it is thursday, april 20th , good morning i'm jim donovan. always prepared jim donovan. i'm jan carabao, in for rahel. katie and meisha are keeping an eye on things. >> good to have you here. >> you weren't. >> no. >> but you are always prepared >> what is on your umbrella. >> cbs logo, they make us carry it around here it is a walking billboard. >> yes, i got mine too. >> good morning, everyone. >> we're looking outside we're looking pretty good. we have an accen

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